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Who shot Malik, and why?


Who shot Malik, and why? Not Charly, as right-handed shooter.
Fingerprint, to set up Charly, but how was the print on what gun?
Confused, as especially Zach mentions Malik in response to Charly's
mention of his son.

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The lawyer, using the gun Charly gave him when he was hanging with the cat.

Why, I'm not sure, unless he wanted Charly arrested for his own protection, or maybe because he was afraid.

That bit did puzzle me. I guess there's also the possibility that they took the gun off the lawyer when they lifted him and it was Zac or one of his guys. Don't really see why though, as he seemed determined to kill him rather than have him arrested.

Another loose end - Zac ended up in prison - Pistachio should have been shown having him killed there. Why? Why not.

Good film.

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The lawyer, using the gun Charly gave him when he was hanging with the cat.

Why, I'm not sure, unless he wanted Charly arrested for his own protection, or maybe because he was afraid.

That bit did puzzle me. I guess there's also the possibility that they took the gun off the lawyer when they lifted him and it was Zac or one of his guys. Don't really see why though, as he seemed determined to kill him rather than have him arrested.


I think there's 3 reasons it cannot have been the lawyer.

1. He had no motive to do it.

2. We know he was picked up by Zac's henchmen. It is almost inconceivable that they would have let him keep his handgun while they took him to see their boss, and almost equally unlikely that they would have returned it to him when they let him go.

3. Charly declared them even after firing the gun to deliberately miss. If Charly thought the lawyer had also tried to frame him (as well as being inadvertently in on the hit) then they wouldnt have been even.


I think it makes more sense that Charly saw the gun and realised his enemies must have taken it from his friend without killing his friend. That clue was all that it took for him to realise that there was only one person who Zac might have brought on the attempted hit who would have been loyal enough to Charly to deliberately miss.

However, as to who actually did kill Malek, that is left unclear. I can only assume that it might have been one of the other assassins acting without Zac's authority. Perhaps that person had a double motive. (a) wanting the police to save him from Charly; (b) wanting to get rid of someone that Zac liked, and therefore improving his own career prospects.

Alternatively, it could have been done on Aurelio's orders, assuming that Aurelio had some people inside Zac's organisation who were able to steal the gun.



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because zack told him so: "take care of charly" after they catched him trying to flee with that boat.or maybe because he tried to protect him and thought he'll be much safer in the police custody...i don't think he was afraid...but how knows?:-??

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Maybe Charly himself shot Malik and held the gun in his right hand to confuse the cops.

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yes...but unlikely

when they were abused at the beach house charly gave a gun to his friend(forgot the dudes name)

and later in the movie...a hand pops out of the car with the same gun and shoots malik.


also at the end at the police station when he's asked if he knows the gun that was used to kill malik he remebers that he gave at the beach house, and also figures who was the 8th shooter who didn't shoot him(he shot in some other direction.)

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Wasn't it the gun from under his matress in the hospital? And didn't Marie do it to avenge her husband? Malik killed him, right? That's what I thought, especially after Marie and Charly's last exchange in the police station.

What I want to know is: What happened to the bomb under Marie's car?

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Charly shot him. Look at his face at the last talk with him and the police woman.
You just know he framed himself to be locked away and be done with it.

At least that's my story.



"Hey, I'll be a part of this world."

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I think that was a tracking device, not a bomb

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Charly didn't shoot him:
1. He couldn't use his right hand to pull the trigger.
2. The guy in the car also shoots the bride in Malek's car, however Charly has his one primary rule: he never take things after women or children.
3. The gun used is the one he gave to the lawyer at the beach, that's why it has his fingerprint.

The lawyer shot him:
1. He had the gun from the beach-house.
2. Zacchia's guys (Frank with his dogs) got him at the zodiac, but they didn't hurt him at all. Why wouldn't they hurt him? He's just a lawyer and he's one of the few people helping Charly (he was at Frederic's questioning), however they have no problem to brutally kill Karim (a result of Frederic's previous questioning) or Charly's son. If they didn't hurt him, it's because he was the unknown shooter, and because Zacchia had other plans for him (trying to frame Charly and put him in jail).

Regarding Marie:
1. She couldn't have shot Malek, it would have been against her ideals. Even if it was Malek who killed her husband (which is not actually revealed in the film, I think). Helping Charly getting his son back is one thing, but killing someone, in cold blood, is a totally different thing.
2. The device put in her car was a tracking device and a microphone, since it's the call to her partner what leads Zacchia to Charly's son and daughter at school.

Regarding Zacchia:
1. I'm not sure if it was his idea to use the lawyer to shoot Malek and frame Charly. He says Malek is like a son to him, but he's so sick and demented, I wouldn't rule out that he gave that order.
2. For Zacchia, killing Charly or putting him behind bars is the same thing. With Charly dead or put away in jail, he is safe. And he can always take care of Charly in prison eventually, I'm sure it would be an easy job to do.

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It was Martin Beaudinard who shot Malek, and maybe even the one who was shot in front of her mother on wheel chair at a park.
He was trying to frame Charly, so Zach get anxious and kill him sooner.
I think Charly's ex-wife is Martin's sister, and it made him angry that he left his sister for another woman and tried to take revenge.

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I can't say I fully followed this film. If Malek is the bridegroom getting the BJ in the car, I took it that the evil bald guy who loved killing did it to frame Charly.

I'm open to other theories.

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